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Hi Gwyn

I've got a book of pre-1855 MIs in Wester Ross (which does cover the Torridon area, with Annat being the burial ground closest to Torridon). Unfortunately, there are no Green families listed in the book at all (unless your ancestors died after 1855 or couldn't afford a headstone ... ).

Hope this is of some help.
Lynn

Hi Brigau

Could the second word be Iosal which I think is Gaelic for "Lower" (which would make the name Lower Fachuim/Faichem)? I'm no Gaelic scholar though!

Hope this helps
Lynn

Hi there

I've had a look in WJ Watson's "Place names of Ross and Cromarty" and there are a few possibilities in Fodderty parish:

Kinnettes
Kinnellan
Knockfarrel
Keppoch

I think the first two look the most likely from what you've been able to decipher so far - let me know if you'd like any further info about them from Watson's book.

Best wishes
Lynn

Hi Daizi

I lived in the Inverness area some years ago and Dochgarroch is a small place (sorry, can't remember much more about it - memory is a bit hazy!). I think the closest cemetery/churchyard on the list (from the link to Ancestry posted by Bruce) would be the one at Lochend. The next closest would be Tomnahurich (in Inverness) I think.

I'm not aware of these cemeteries being online, but the Highland Family History Society does sell a booklet of Lochend MIs and the Scottish Genealogy Society does have a handful of pre-1855 Tomnahurich (nothing after this date I'm afraid) MIs in their Inverness District East booklet.

Hope this helps
Lynn

Hi Kiko

WJ Watson in "Place names of Ross and Cromarty" (published 1904) lists Strathbran under the parish of Contin.

The entry reads:
"Strathbran and River Bran: "Bran" is an obsolete word meaning raven. As applied to a river, the reference is not very clear, but it may have been given simply from ravens having haunted some parts of it. It is possible to suppose the name to have been given from the black colour of the water; most probably however, there is a mythological reference. The Ross-shire Bran must be carefully distinguished from the Perthshire Bran, the Gaelic of which is Breamhainn."

I've looked through the other place names listed for Contin and there's not a mention of a Knockbain in the parish unfortunately. However, "Knockbain" means "white hill" and there is a Fionn Bheinn (which also means "white hill") listed in Contin parish in Watson's book. Watson says it's "south west of Loch Fannich". Perhaps just a coincidence?

Hope this helps!
Lynn